Prompt

Ortelere, a retired teacher, has built up a substantial amount of funds in her retirement plan before she retired because of "involutional psychosis" (a form of mental illness).

She has previously specified that a lowered monthly retirement benefit would be paid to her so that her husband would get some benefit from the retirement plan if she died before he did.  After her mental problems began, she changed her payout plan and borrowed from the pension fund (....ok, lady, you're getting the money based on 'your' decision! We have relied on 'your' decision 'today'. Positions are changing, parties will be 'affected' based on 'representations'.)

As a consequence of the changes she made, her husband lost his rights to benefit. Two months after she made the changes, she died. The husband sued to reverse the changes his wife made, claiming she was not of sound mind when she made them.

• Will the changes in the plan be voided? Previously in Chapter 10 you only have the concept of 'consideration' and in chapter 11 we have 'competency'. Even if you argue competency, don't you find this very difficult to prove?
• Explain your answer. This is a good one, have some fun with this. You 'could' argue both sides, who has the stronger position?..... no free lunch, eh? Going to need an 'empathetic judge'?

Activity 2: Transcription

Imagine that you’re having a house built. The architect draws up a set of blueprints for the builder. The builder, in turn, has to hire several subcontractors for the electrical, plumbing, and heating systems. The builder doesn’t wish to give up the original set of blueprints, so copies are made for each of the subcontractors.

This same principle applies to a cell. The nucleus contains the master set of blueprints, the DNA. DNA molecules are needed to direct the activities that occur in the cytoplasm of each cell.

When other organelles need to manufacture materials for the cell, copies of the master blueprint are made, so that the originals are not damaged or lost. This process is referred to as transcription. The copies made by transcription will be in the form of another molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA)

There are several differences between DNA and mRNA:

In this activity you’ll transcribe a DNA code into mRNA. The DNA sequence in this activit represents a gene located on one of the chromosomes in the nucleus of a cell that codes for a specific protein.

1. Since thymine isn’t found in mRNA, the base pairing rule you learned in the previous activity must be altered. Complete Table 9-2 by entering the appropriate bases.

Table 9 – 2 mRNA Base pairing

2. Looking at Figure 9 – 2, you can see that column one contains the DNA sequence found along one side of a double helix.

Fill in the appropriate mRNA sequence in the second column.

3. The mRNA code is composed of a sequence of three bases along the mDNA molecule. The three bases are referred to as a codon.

ATG is the first triplet on the DNA sequence. What is the corresponding codon?

4. How many codons does your mRNA strand contain?
5. What is the base sequence of the fourth codon of your mRNA?

FIGURE 9-2

Activity 3: Translation and protein synthesis

Having copied the DNA into mRNA leaves the nucleus of the cell and travels to a ribosome.

Reminder: Ribosomes are the sites of protein synthesis within a cell

Proteins are composed of chains of amino acids. A chain of amino acids is also referred to as a polypeptide chain because the amino acids are held together with a type of covalent bond called a peptide bond.

Amino acids are brought to the ribosome by another type of RNA called transfer RNA (tRNA). The codons in the mRNA determine the sequence and number of amino acids being bonded into the corresponding protein.

1. Refer to the mRNA codons in Table 9-3 to determine the amino acid sequence for your protein.

To do this, just match each codon in your mRNA sequence to the corresponding amino acid as listed in the table.

Fill in column three of Figure 9-2 with the correct amino acids.

2. How many amino acids does your protein contain?
3. What is the sixth amino acid in the polypeptide chain?
4. If the sixth triple read GAA instead of GGA, would the sequence of amino acids change? Explain your answer.
5. If the sixth triple read GGC instead of GGA, would the sequence of amino acids change? Explain your answer.
6. What is the name of the bonds that attach the amino acids together within the polypeptide chain?

Condor Airplane Company has built a new model jet aircraft which it intends to sell to high net worth clients. This aircraft required 25,000 hours to complete. Condor believes an incremental unit-time learning model with an 82% learning curve best reflects the company's production efficiency. Condor just received a contract to make fifteen identical aircraft. What will be the expected unit time for the sixteenth aircraft?

ABC Inc. formerly operated successfully as a proprietorship owned by Ms. Zhu. She has built the business herself by being a hands-on owner, involved in all aspects of the business. The business has never had any debt and this allowed the business to remain profitable even when the economy slowed down 3 years ago. Ms. Zhu has contacted a CPA firm to request an external audit. She has maintained a good relationship with her bank of several years, as the business has been successful and generates sufficient cash flow to meet the needs for operating, financing, and investing activities.

Required

a. Explain why you think that ABC Inc. does (or does not) require an external audit.
b. Ignore your answer to part a) and assume that the audit firm’s decision was that ABC Inc. does not

require an external audit. Explain whether the auditor’s responsibility as a CPA is to provide the audit services as the client requests, or to advise that an audit is not required.

You've built an inflight entertainment system with on-demand movie streaming.

Users on longer flights like to start a second movie right when their first one ends, but they complain that the plane usually lands before they can see the ending. So you're building a feature for choosing two movies whose total runtimes will equal the exact flight length.

Write a method that takes an integer flightLength (in minutes) and an array of integers movieLengths (in minutes) and returns a boolean indicating whether there are two numbers in movieLengths whose sum equals flightLength.

When building your method:

• Assume your users will watch exactly two movies
• Don't make your users watch the same movie twice
• Optimize for runtime over memory

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import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.JUnitCore;
import org.junit.runner.Result;
import org.junit.runner.notification.Failure;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class Solution {

public static boolean canTwoMoviesFillFlight(int[] movieLengths, int flightLength) {

// determine if two movies add up to the flight length
  

return false;
}

// tests

@Test
public void shortFlightTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {2, 4}, 1);
assertFalse(result);
}

@Test
public void longFlightTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {2, 4}, 6);
assertTrue(result);
}

@Test
public void onlyOneMovieHalfFlightLenghtTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {3, 8}, 6);
assertFalse(result);
}

@Test
public void twoMoviesHalfFlightLengthTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {3, 8, 3}, 6);
assertTrue(result);
}

@Test
public void lotsOfPossiblePairsTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, 7);
assertTrue(result);
}

@Test
public void notUsingFirstMovieTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {4, 3, 2}, 5);
assertTrue(result);
}

@Test
public void oneMovieTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {6}, 6);
assertFalse(result);
}

@Test
public void noMoviesTest() {
final boolean result = canTwoMoviesFillFlight(new int[] {}, 6);
assertFalse(result);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
Result result = JUnitCore.runClasses(Solution.class);
for (Failure failure : result.getFailures()) {
System.out.println(failure.toString());
}
if (result.wasSuccessful()) {
System.out.println("All tests passed.");
}
}
}

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PLEASE EXPLAIN THE LOGIC AND WRITE THE SOLUTION ALSO .

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE : JAVA

To what extent have you built your own brand? Is this something that you have ever considered before?

Networking has the potential to open doors and create possibilities for jobs and partnerships. Networking establishes connections between individuals and access to information that one might not normally have access to. Reaching out to strangers can be an intimidating and nerve-racking experience. In business, the more central you are, the more power you have. Creating connections and ties to other people affords you the opportunity for power and the ability to more closely control your future, so while at times networking might feel awkward and uncomfortable, it is a necessary and important part of establishing and maintaining a career.

Online social networking sites play an important role in this networking process for individuals both professionally and personally. With 1,200 employees in 2010, Facebook has 350 million users around the world, and LinkedIn has over 60 million members in over 200 countries. A new member joins LinkedIn every second, and about half of the members are outside the United States. These online sites have created new opportunities for networking and allow individuals to branch out beyond their normal world of industry, school, and business. The key is to avoid costly missteps as employers have begun to search online for information about prospective and current employees. In 2009, 8% of companies reported that they had fired an employee for misuse of social media.

Many of these online sites have become a tool for business. For example, LinkedIn targets working professionals and provides them a way to maintain lists of business connections and to use those connections to gain introduction to people using mutual contacts. Unlike other social networking sites, LinkedIn is almost entirely used by professionals. The power of social networking flows in both directions. Employers can screen applicants through their online accounts and recruiters more than ever are using these sites to view background information, individual skill sets, and employment history, which can be cross-referenced with submitted applications. Job seekers can review the profiles of those at top management firms and search for mutual contacts. LinkedIn also provides statistics about firms, which can be useful information for individuals looking at potential employers.

Networking is about building your brand and managing relationships. Using social networks as a vehicle to market one’s self and make professional connections is becoming increasingly common, as well as using loose ties or connections through others to open doors and land jobs. In an increasingly high-tech and digital world, it is important to be aware and conscience of the digital footprint that we create. But with careful cultivation these online networks can present many opportunities.

ANSWER USING R CODE

Using the dataset 'LakeHuron' which is a built in R dataset describing the level in feet of Lake Huron from 1872- 1972. To assign the values into an ordinary vector,x, we can do the following 'x <- as.vector(LakeHuron)'. From there, we can access the data easily. Assume the values in X are a random sample from a normal population with distribution X. Also assume the X has an unknown mean and unknown standard deviation. With this information in mind, answer the following.

a) The sample mean of x

b) the sample mean of 8X

c) Using this data, create a 97% confidence interval for X using the a t-distribution critical value tstar.

d) Using this data, create a 3 percent level test of H0:mu = 578.9 versus the alternative Ha:mu > 578.9. USing tis information, calculate the value of the z-statistic

e) With the z-statistic, calculate the appropriate p-value.